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- 2024
- Article
Financial Constraints and Short-term Planning are Linked to Flood Risk Adaptation Gaps in U.S. cities
By: Shirley Lu and Anya Nakhmurina
Adaptation is critical in reducing the inevitable impact of climate change. Here we study cities’ adaptation to elevated flood risk by introducing a linguistic measure of adaptation extracted from financial disclosures of 431 US cities over 2013–2020. While cities with... View Details
Keywords: City; Natural Disasters; Climate Change; Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategic Planning
Lu, Shirley, and Anya Nakhmurina. "Financial Constraints and Short-Term Planning Are Linked to Flood Risk Adaptation Gaps in U.S. Cities." Art. 43. Communications Earth & Environment 5 (2024).
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
Technology is changing everything about how we shop. Two decades ago when we needed something, we went to the store. That’s what we’d done for hundreds of years. Then we began to turn to the computer. Now shopping means reaching for our... View Details
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Luciana has taught in front of MBA, Master of International Business and Economics, and Executive Education students. At HBS, she was a teaching fellow in "Managing Innovation" (taught in the MBA program by Professor Karim Lakhani) and co-developed most teaching... View Details
- August 1983 (Revised December 1987)
- Case
Hewlett-Packard: Challenging the Entrepreneurial Culture
Stevenson, Howard H. "Hewlett-Packard: Challenging the Entrepreneurial Culture." Harvard Business School Case 384-035, August 1983. (Revised December 1987.)
- April 1995
- Case
Phelps Dodge Corporation
By: W. Carl Kester and Kendall Backstrand
A prolonged decline in copper prices prompts Phelps Dodge, one of the world's largest independent copper companies, to consider corporate diversification as a means of protecting itself from copper price volatility. View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Price; Volatility; Risk Management; Mining Industry; Arizona; United States
Kester, W. Carl, and Kendall Backstrand. "Phelps Dodge Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 295-132, April 1995.
- July 24, 2013
- Article
Family Business: How to Spot a Patriarch Problem
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
In this article, the authors discuss the concept of a "problem patriarch" in family businesses, using the example of Carl, a successful leader who undermined the talent he hired. Carl started a struggling $10 million automotive parts distributor and turned it into a $2... View Details
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Family Business: How to Spot a Patriarch Problem." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 24, 2013).
- 2025
- Working Paper
How Do Households Suppress the Price of Tail Risk?
By: Laurent Calvet, Claire Célérier, Gordon Liao and Boris Vallée
This paper investigates the effects of the issuance of retail products with non-linear payoffs on option prices. For a given underlying asset, when the outstanding volume of products embedding a short-put position increases, implied volatility at the corresponding... View Details
Keywords: Security Design; Dividend; Options; Structured Products; Market Segmentation; Financial Instruments; Design; Volatility; Markets; Segmentation
Calvet, Laurent, Claire Célérier, Gordon Liao, and Boris Vallée. "How Do Households Suppress the Price of Tail Risk?" Working Paper, 2025.
- 1985
- Chapter
Managing the New Product Development Process: How Japanese Companies Learn and Unlearn
By: Ken-ichi Imai, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
Imai, Ken-ichi, Ikujiro Nonaka, and Hirotaka Takeuchi. "Managing the New Product Development Process: How Japanese Companies Learn and Unlearn." In The Uneasy Alliance: Managing the Productivity-Technology Dilemma, edited by R. Hayes, K. Clark, and C. Lorenz. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1985.
- 2004
- Chapter
Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka
Takeuchi, Hirotaka, and Ikujiro Nonaka. "Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation ." In Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management, by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
- January 2008 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
Transformation at the IRS (TN)
By: Frances X. Frei and Amy C. Edmondson
Teaching Note for [603010]. View Details
- June 2003 (Revised August 2008)
- Teaching Note
Children's Hospital and Clinics (TN)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Michael Roberto and Laura Feldman
Teaching Note for (9-302-050). View Details
- May 2001 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
U.S. in 2001, The: Macroeconomic Policy and the New Economy
By: Huw Pill
Presents four views of U.S. macroeconomic developments in the late 1990s: an HBS professor, the Federal Reserve, the Clinton administration, and President George W. Bush. Develops the implications of the new economy--technological and organizational change--for... View Details
Pill, Huw. "U.S. in 2001, The: Macroeconomic Policy and the New Economy." Harvard Business School Case 701-113, May 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
- July 2000 (Revised February 2001)
- Case
alphaWorks: IBM's Technology Talent Agents
AlphaWorks has catalyzed IBM researchers and offered them a new path to take technology to market. With success, though, comes new organizational challenges. Should John Wolpert extend alphaWorks to all IBM labs, refocus, or shut down its operations? View Details
Chesbrough, Henry W., and Jason D Loia. "alphaWorks: IBM's Technology Talent Agents." Harvard Business School Case 601-001, July 2000. (Revised February 2001.)
- June 1986
- Article
Professional Psychologists as Group Treatment Providers: Utilization, Training, and Trends
By: Timothy Butler and Adelaide Fuhriman
Butler, Timothy, and Adelaide Fuhriman. "Professional Psychologists as Group Treatment Providers: Utilization, Training, and Trends." Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 17, no. 3 (June 1986).
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Lone Star Star
Paul Wylie Texas may seem an unlikely point of origin for an ice skater, but the Lone Star State recently welcomed home native son Paul Wylie (MBA '00), winner of the silver medal in men's figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics. Wylie, now a marketing executive for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
been designed to create a new kind of offshore operating environment, where safety was the priority. Management attacked the safety issue from the top down, investing extensively in leadership training, policies, and practices intended to View Details
- September 2008 (Revised October 2009)
- Background Note
The Carbon Market
By: Andre F. Perold, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman
The carbon market has emerged in response to concerns about global climate change. This note characterizes the market in 2008, describing each segment and how it operates. View Details
Perold, Andre F., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Mikell Hyman. "The Carbon Market." Harvard Business School Background Note 209-064, September 2008. (Revised October 2009.)
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
5 Challenges China Must Meet by 2034
- January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Credit Suisse Group: Managing Equity Research as a Business
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Sarah Abbott
In 2003, in the midst of industry turmoil and company-specific challenges, Stefano Natella was named Global Head of Equity Research at Credit Suisse. Over a six-year period, Natella implemented and refined a new methodology for valuing equity research analysts, both... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Customer Satisfaction; Compensation and Benefits; Selection and Staffing; Balanced Scorecard; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Sarah Abbott. "Credit Suisse Group: Managing Equity Research as a Business." Harvard Business School Case 410-073, January 2010. (Revised April 2010.)